Spencer Leonard Platypus Review 34 | April 2011 [PDF] On January 31, 2011, Spencer A. Leonard interviewed Mel Rothenberg, author of The Myth of Capitalism Reborn: A Marxist Critique of Theories of Capitalist Restoration in the USSR to discuss the theoretical underpinnings of American Maoism in the 1970s. The interview was aired on the radio [...]
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Attention to theory: Letter to the editor of Under the Banner of Marxism
Leon Trotsky Platypus Review 34 | April 2011 [PDF] On the occasion of the launch of a new theoretical journal in 1922, Under the Banner of Marxism (Pod Znamenem Marksizma), Lenin singled out the open letter that Trotsky had written to the editors in the first issue, while expressing the hope that the venture would [...]
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Postcolonialism or postmodernism? An interview with Susan Buck-Morss
Chris Mansour Platypus Review 34 | April 2011 [PDF] On February 11, 2011—the day Hosni Mubarak resigned the office of President of Egypt—Chris Mansour interviewed Susan Buck-Morss, professor of political philosophy and social theory at Cornell University and author of The Origin of Negative Dialectics and Thinking Past Terror: Islamism and Critical Theory on the [...]
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To the shores of Tripoli: Tsunamis and world history
Chris Cutrone Platypus Review 34 | April 2011 [PDF] “AFTER ME, THE DELUGE,” the saying attributed to Louis XV (1710–74), would have been better said by his son and heir Louis XVI, who was soon thereafter overthrown by the French Revolution that began in 1789.[1] Muammar Qaddafi has said something similar, that if he is [...]
April 2nd, 2011 | PR web editor | 1 comment | Continued